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But it leaves that conjunction; it cannot suffer that unity;
it falls in love with its own powers and possessions, and desires
to stand apart; it leans outward so to speak: then, it appears to
acquire a memory of itself.
In this self-memory a distinction is to be made; the memory
dealing with the Intellectual Realm upbears the soul, not to
fall; the memory of things here bears it downwards to this
universe; the intermediate memory dealing with the heavenly
sphere holds it there too; and, in all its memory, the thing it
has in mind it is and grows to; for this bearing-in-mind must be
either intuition [i.e., knowledge with identity] or
representation by image: and the imaging in the case of the is
not a taking in of something but is vision and condition- so much
so, that, in its very sense- sight, it is the lower in the degree
in which it penetrates the object. Since its possession of the
total of things is not primal but secondary, it does not become
all things perfectly [in becoming identical with the All in the
Intellectual]; it is of the boundary order, situated between two
regions, and has tendency to both.
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